Aquarist Atlas · armoured catfish

Every cory on one map

3,784 georeferenced records across 262 species of Corydoradinae, drawn over the river systems of South America — the Amazon and Orinoco lowlands, the clearwater shield streams, and the Paraná–La Plata south. Colour the cloud by current genus (the 2024 Hoplisoma–Brochis–Osteogaster lineages and their kin), or switch to compare mode and read two species’ ranges against each other.

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About this map. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, and click a dot to identify the species. The 3,784 dots are real occurrence records pulled from GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — an aggregator of museum specimens, scientific surveys and verified citizen-science sightings — queried for both each fish’s hobby name and its current 2024 genus combination. Treat them as a guide to where a species lives, not exact spots: many records are georeferenced to a locality centroid (a nearby town or river mouth) rather than the precise catch site, some are historical or low-precision, and the occasional point may be a misidentification or a record from outside the native range. No coordinates are invented — but any single dot can sit a little off.

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